Second Republic debates in Turkey
Author
Arıkan, Ekin Burak
Advisor
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe
Date
1993Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This study aims at analyzing the Second Republic debat es in
Turkey in the early 1990s which are import ant in det er mi ni ng the
contours of its democratization process.
The crux of the following study is to analyze the Second
Republic debates in Turkey and to situate them in democr at i c theory.
The Second Republic debates can be approached from the viewpoints
of two different currents of ideas embracing Rousseauean and
Lockean elements, fhe conceptual difference between a republic and
a democr acy is also analyzed in this thesis. The different views
presented by the two groups (pro versus anti-Second Republicans)
are situated within democratic theory as well as analyzed under four
main headings; political, economic, fiscal and social. The proSecond
Republicans display a more Lockean issue ori ent ed
understanding, where the anti-Second Republicans are more
Rousseauean emphasizing the need to preserve the existing
egalitarian political culture in Turkey.